Your question is actually deeper than some of the people answering you
seem to realize.
How does ghci decide what to do when you say
show []
?
The expression [] has type [a], which means it could be a list of any
type 'a', including Char.
Normally, when Haskell can't determine the type in this
Hi.
I'm a Haskell newbie and there's a bit of Haskell code that I don't
understand how it works. In the prelude, defining the class Show, the
function showList is implemented twice, one for String and another one
for other lists:
showList cs = showChar '' . showl cs
where
On 17 May 2010 12:56, Abby Henríquez Tejera parad...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a Haskell newbie and there's a bit of Haskell code that I don't
understand how it works. In the prelude, defining the class Show, the
function showList is implemented twice, one for String and another one
for other
